Analytics Engineer

Montreal 3 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
Sepal AI builds the world's hardest tests for AI grounded in real-world software systems. We're hiring a Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience and a strong systems mindset to help us build evaluation environments for AI in high-throughput log analysis contexts. What You'll Do • Design and implement analytical schemas and pipelines using tools like BigQuery, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Redshift, and other highperformance columnar databases. • Work on complex, distributed queries over massive log and telemetry datasets. • Create and manage synthetic datasets that simulate realworld DevOps, observability, or cloud infrastructure logs. • Tune and optimize distributed query execution plans to avoid timeouts and reduce overscanning. Who You Are • 3+ years of experience in data engineering or backend systems roles. • Deep expertise in analytical databases and OLAP engines with a focus on largescale query optimization, schema design, and performance tuning. • Handson with log ingestion pipelines (e.g., FluentBit, Logstash, Vector) and schema design for observability systems. • Strong SQL skills: you know how to reason through performance problems and spot inefficient query patterns. • Bonus: Experience with Python, Docker, or synthetic data generation. Pay $50 - 85/hr depending on experience Remote, flexible hours Project timeline: 5-6 weeks